Wild monkeys have attacked dozens of residents of a city in southwestern Japan in recent weeks, with reports of the animals crawling through house windows and striking from behind, as police step up ...

(CBS)-- Monkeys you've seen pictured in hot springs with snow on their heads have moved into Lincoln Park Zoo. The troop of eight Japanese macaques will be meeting the public starting May 1, and were ...

Sailors and civilians at a naval base near the Japanese capital have been told to keep their distance from a wild monkey spotted prowling nearby. A “Monkey Warning” posted Monday by Naval Air Facility ...

Recent studies have shown that Japanese macaques catch and eat fish such as trout in a stream in the middle of winter. It has been known that Japanese macaques have discovered and eat saltwater fish ...

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There've been at least 58 attacks on people since July 8. It's so bad that the city of Yamaguchi has created a special unit to hunt and tranquilize the animals. reading time 2 minutes In just the past ...

Japan's Monkey Queen who violently overthrew the alpha male of her troop to become its first female leader in 70 years could lose her title during mating season, experts say. Yakei is a female ...

Blank Park Zoo officials announced Tuesday that a male Japanese macaque, also known as a ‘snow monkey’ was born at the zoo on May 13.Zoo officials said this is the sixth Japanese macaque born at the ...

A love of sliding into the bath to decompress after a stressful day is something humans share with their primate cousins, according to a new study into hot spring monkeys. Researchers wanted to ...

Researchers assumed that the red faces in Japanese macaques signaled fertility. But new research indicates that it acts more as a 'badge' of social status and is involved in signaling social ...